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Talking Memory – Violated!: Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust

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The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new four part series:

Violated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust

The fourth and final program will take place on Sunday, March 26th:

Victimization of Jewish Women Survivors by Their Soviet Liberators

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Daina S. Eglitis

Dr. Eglitis’s talk discusses the phenomenon of sexual violence at liberation, specifically, assaults committed by Soviet Army liberators against Jewish women survivors. Testimonies and memoirs reveal that survival of Nazi captivity was perceived by some Soviet troops as evidence of complicity, which fostered a thirst for revenge, and that soldiers sometimes sought to exact payment for freedom from women survivors. Evidence from these sources also points to continuing brutality against survivors seeking to return to homes in the USSR in Soviet filtration camps.

This program is in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute, Women in the Holocaust – International Study Center (MORESHET), Wagner College Holocaust Center, Classrooms Without Borders, Rabin Chair Forum Washington University, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center.

Registration

2 PM EST | 8 PM CET | 8 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel
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Zoom w/Mordechai Kedar this Thursday
ZOOM WITH AFSI THURSDAY, MARCH 30 @ 1:00PM EDT
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DR. MORDECHAI KEDAR is one of Israel’s leading figures in understanding the Arab world. He is the Middle East analyst of the daily newspaper Makor Rishon as well as other publications. Dr. Kedar is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam, a research associate of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and a lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
Dr.  Kedar is a Religious Zionist and an expert in Israeli Arab culture. He served for 25 years in IDF Military Intelligence, where he specialized in Islamic groups, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic press and mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena.
He holds a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University. He is fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. He is described as „one of the few Arabic-speaking Israeli pundits seen on Arabic satellite channels defending Israel.” He is also VP of Newsrael.
Dr. Kedar is a frequent guest in the Israeli, Arab and international media.
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Home of the Holocaust – The Land of Žemaitija

Žemaitija (Samogitia) is the western region of Lithuania with its own dialect, history and culture. It’s also where the mass murder of Jews in Lithuania began.

The onset of the Holocaust in Lithuania hasn’t been sufficiently researched. Mostly, myths still abound. Lithuanian propaganda talks much of an “uprising,” placing significance on one set of mass murders, while simultaneously suppressing the slaughter of Jews by Lithuanians. Truth and facts are needed. Here is a start:

Gargždai

As far as is known, the first mass-shooting of Jews in Lithuania was in Gargždai on June 24, 1941. Some claim these were the first such massacres of Jews in Europe, but the truth seems to be that there were similar episodes earlier in Poland after the 1939 invasion.

In Gargždai the total extermination of the Jews of Lithuania began in what is now known as the “Holocaust by Bullets”. Two hundred men and one woman were shot on June 24 in Gargždai. Stahlecker, the commander of Einsatzgruppe A, issued the orders for this mass murder. The RSHA (ReichsSicherheitsHauptAmt, or Supreme Reich Security Department) confirmed his orders on June 23. Tilsit, East Prussia, Gestapo commander Hans Joachim Böhme planned the mass murder operation and Tilsit SD commander Werner Hersmann carried it out.

Perpetrators of the mass murder in Gargždai:

Tilsit Gestapo commander Hans Joachim Böhme;

Tilsit SD commander Werner Hersmann;

Memel/Klaipėda chief of police Dr. Erich Frohwann;

Post Event 29.1 + February Programs

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Dear Friends,

Thank you for joining us on Sunday, January 29th for the first program in a new four part series:

Violated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust

Our guest speakers were Dr. Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel who gave a presentation on:

Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust:
Challenges and Reflections

Dr. Sharon Geva gave the opening remarks.

We invite all participants, and those of you who did not catch this talk, to watch the recording of this program on the Ghetto Fighters’ House YouTube channel

You can watch all the Talking Memory programs on our YouTube play list
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SAVE THE DATE: 

The second program in the series Violated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust will take place on Sunday, February 19th:

Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices under Nazi Rule  
The guest speaker will be Dr. Beverley Chalmers.

Holocaust literature gives exhaustive attention to ‘direct’ means of exterminating Jews, by using gas chambers, torture, starvation, disease, and intolerable conditions in ghettos and camps, and by the Einsatzgruppen.  Manipulating reproduction and sexuality – as a less ‘direct,’ but also abusive, method of genocide of Jews, or its antithesis – geno-coercion among ‘Aryans,’- has not yet received the same attention, and will be examined in this presentation.  The Nazis abused reproduction and sexuality to create an ideological ‘Master Race.’ They prohibited those deemed ‘Life unworthy of life’ from having sex or reproducing while promoting these among those deemed ‘worthy of life.’

This program is in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute, Women in the Holocaust – International Study Center (MORESHET), Wagner College Holocaust Center, Classrooms Without Borders, Rabin Chair Forum Washington University, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center.

2 PM EST | 8 PM CET | 9 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel

Register here

With Our Partners:

Wednesday, February 9th:

What do we remember? How do we remember? Who remembers? Panel discussion

This is the fourth and final program in the series:  80 Years After – Aktion Reinhard”: The Industrial Killing of European Jewry, a joint project of the Galicia Jewish Museum, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre,  and the Ghetto Fighters House

During the last event,  we will discuss issues related to memory. What Do We Remember? How Do We Remember? Who Remember? Prof. James Young will describe the process of commemoration at the Concentration and Death Camps itself. Prof Omer Bartov will look at the processes of transmission of the memory of the Holocaust in Israel. Finally, activist Dariusz Poplela will show how small communities and nongovernmental organizations work together to bring back the memory of the Holocaust in the context of rural Poland today.
Dr. Edyta Gawron from the Jagiellonian University will moderate this program.

Register here

 1 PM EST | 7 PM CET | 8 PM SAST | 8 PM Israel
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Thursday, February 23rd:

A NEW eight part series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses.
Classrooms Without Borders, in coordination with Tali Nates, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Madene Shachar, Director, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs at the Ghetto Fighters’ House, Esther Toporek Finder, member of the GSI Coordinating Council, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75, is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry.” 

This series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes, impacts, and legacies of the Holocaust.

The first program will feature Dr. Robert Krell, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia and Holocaust survivor,  who will give a presentation on:  Psychiatry and the Holocaust.

Register here

2 PM EST | 8 PM CET | 9 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel
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